Giacometti : critical essays / edited by Peter Read and Julia Kelly.

Other author Read, Peter (Peter F.)
Other author Kelly, Julia, 1970-
Format Book
Publication InfoFarnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009.
Descriptionxiv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

SeriesSubject/object--new studies in sculpture
Subject/object--new studies in sculpture. ^A583239
Contents Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Introduction / by Peter Read -- 1. From "Vue d'atelier" to "Vie d'atelier" : 46 rue Hippolyte-Maindron and the beginnings of Giacometti / Jon Wood -- 2. Giacometti's objects : poetry, childhood,and the neurotic theatre of projection / Michael Stone-Richards -- 3. Giacometti's break with surrealism : abstraction, Hegelianism, and the communicating vase / Robin Spencer -- 4. Giacometti and the Kauffmann tomb / Casimiro Di Crescenzo -- 5. Giacometti's Geneva period (1941-1945) : the birth of new sculpture / Thierry Dufrêne -- 6. Giacometti and the basis of sculpture / Alex Potts -- 7. Alberto Giacometti, Michel Leiris, and the myths of existentialism / Julia Kelly -- 8. From spectre to sceptre : Giacometti's sculpture in the writing of Francis Ponge / Peter Read -- 9. "An unknown country" : Isaku Yanaihara's Giacometti diaries / Akihiko Takeda -- 10. Giacometti in Fez / Sarah Wilson -- Select bibliography.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008041394
ISBN9780754654469 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN075465446X (hardcover : alk. paper)

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